The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.